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/ Welfare Unit Fights Use of Lead Paint . f'-r- 1 fowl , By KAHUNA DVKIr- 4 Of The Buttelto Staff TV Philadelphia Welfan Right* Organization fas begui ft campaign against the use-a {ntd-hnsed paint tar tin- Interior: Si apartments and houses. "la-ad poisoning is against ihi law, but nothing is being dnm to prevent il," Mrs. Rnxaimi Jones, WRO president, told i press rnnCerence yesterday it the organization's oflio, tS N Hth st. Citing statistics from the Ao cident Conlrnt Section at the city's Community Health Sent. Ires, Mr*. Jones said 100 chil dren develop lead poisnningjin Philadelphia e*nrp!e-mnfdne out of every six dies fora it Cheaper 'than Other* ` - Alihnrigb tire sr t lead paint iat interior walls is piohihiteil. she said, msny Isncl-i lords still use St hnause it is cheaper than nlher paint. If the paint chips and small children nibble at if. she said, they can W* polW(l, ! m4 paint fuijf'm! by still presents a 'gmtpfilfcl fcayanl. Mrs. draw's rstise if the f*tp layer chips, the] patisf hi rxpnsrd. Campaign (fort* 11m campaign Rprks ft*; * W It*** #&* l*i *-- MJ City Outlaws Lead Paint On ' ` " tead- fenSure and home interiors is painted surfaces within ten SSncS.*1 ^i&spiAics ,oi2?iSs. -i-rris'irr..fcsrftty. Containers of lead 1*^` ^SjfJSil1? sfcre ia*t carry ft wtnring label listing tfa* prohibited uses, said. j^fSS r. Norman B, Ingraham, city health commissioner. LastyearEhiladeipjtia had 134 cases of lead mttodngjtt chil i?ns"p"ect*ionP! o,fve.su^sp'fected will begin[immedkatatiy, said* Miano dren, lad.ndin|~fwe' dethc. There have bent three lead poisoiling death* this year. Ilft-nfal Retardation Victims who survive frequent ly suffer mental retardation- Bum brain damage. Lead poisoning occurs when child chew* or months an ofc-j 1 feel painted with a paint eon-. - tuning a toxic level at lead, he ffgldv . ' lead jminf Is denned in the gbtw ex&naftbe ftft print hi which the jaaa-volitne ingredients con tain suons uan l percent of teati by weight ! . #, ; A first offense cts ream in a fine of 125 to $B0> and subse quent violations up to $309, licvdtftSgations planned Tim Health Department wffl Investigate sutfae?* in bosses, fehere doctor* report lead poi**1 gfssing eases, *nd will warn! on the inside gratis of townrest housing, partfcularly city-own ed temshtg, where Mrs. Jones paid she has ehdewe lead paint St afiEI often jhsed. --Educate pi rent* about symp tom# of lest poisoning and JUfl 6"i957 | ,, encourage tin n to <alee children te a health - enter for tests If 23ie'Bicnitia15ullctin they observe -'Gel the such symptoms. cooperation of PHILADELPHIA, Tuctdey, Jam 6, 1967 19 6 Schools in ed icatinn about lead U, S. Hails City Health Deptpoisoning am its detection. "We ere Ini nested is prevent- Drive on Lead Poisoning,Sag (red pois Mag -- nothing is' ever done as 51 lifter the Stof/'1 paid Mrs. Jobes, Meeting Su it kt By DAVID M. CLEARY [Department opened sf two-day She said the WRO ha* asked In a jnvetlnfjwith Health Com missioner Noi nan R- Ingraham, mpiesenUffo * Of the Accident Control Secti in, the city Law Department add the Department ,lri `atcflA,PptHnhruOeoeobgaflfPilfrcTtiahhchimHilaaeSedleBaIeonrlluvtpfhilhclttehheiyateeeinc.DspUoterSen.eprgtvdSaureaar.ftfnytmPutilleuoaanbtnr-tj[[spttphneaoIegmininsfBtoioaennenndaintnrsjwgdaosimienbtohiymnrl!eeiftatiamdnepksolisall|effHneionrtgelel.aadt gf Licenses aifd .'toSpeetSons. mjtjreaiment of fead;yison- Urges Similar 1 Dr, Ingrshafcaaid Health De Dr. Marfand t city to partment officials wilt telk with DK Richard E. Marland, chief 'start simitar j other Mrs. Jones about the situation., fthe Service's Injury Control :*reaj of concern, i burns. He naiti feet^pohajuhig of chil lection, said this city has made But. Dr. Marland said, it is dren is "a problem which is still najor advances by: 'not the province of the federal with as,- bat the Health Be- --Making lead poisoning a re-j[government to tell the dtp what partnirnC* detection program portable disease. to do. Instead, he said, the city storing the past three years has --Conducting s idics aimed al is able better to determine its gnught rases earlier than in finding out the ource of lead -own needs and methods of com previous year,; and that there poisoning. batting them. have, hemi as deaths in the past Two-Day Semin (voyeurs. ' I ( --Issuing regt lations which In older simians of the city, strictly control I e use of lead- where the interiors of buildings base paints, pr hibiting their! finve levers of lead Mint, in use entirely on,fays, children's- spectors have required that the furniture, and rooms in which, print he removed and the in-, children live. j trdm repainted, he said. The; Dr. Marland made the key department made 435 specific note address aa the city Health orders of paint removal from the time the new city regulations t into effect in August. IKS, I December, IKS, he said. N39158